8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 4-8)To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we accomplish as a hireling his day . We continue in the world but for one generation, which is continually passing away to make room for another, and we are passing with it. Our worldly possessions we very la...
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